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Sadly, Jack Smith won't be in a team that wins the title, unless there is seriously improvement on his part.

Cook 8.45 Hougaard 6.09 Tungate 6.18 Worrall 6.77 Fricke 7.39 Bewley 4.71 Leaves 2.91

The enjoyment of this sport. The SWC was the best week of action that world speedway provided. Now it's condensed into one event, where the format is unfair (assuming it is done via the 7 team pairs race card). Has the team that ride for the first time in heat 4, ever not conceded a 5-1 in their first ride using this format? Why is a Speedway 3-3 better when you finished 2nd & 3rd? Awful format. In the past 4 years I've visited places in Poland I probably wouldn't have thought of visiting to watch the SWC race-off & final. I'm not going anywhere to watch the rumored reformatting of the SWC. Have you ever been to a SWC race-off in Poland? Except for a few hundred tourists, it is empty. The Poles really don't give a moneys uncle about it. The six guys in a heat format was fantastic, cost Cradley a trophies that did with injuries to Jan O Pedersen & Simon Cross. The pairs format is the worst format in Speedway.

Why not, he hasn't ridden in the UK for a year? Woffinden's average is apparently being reassessed. Woffinden is a far more useful ally in marketing terms for the BSPA than Woryna will ever be. You are quite the over emotional online gibbon. If former GP riders that failed to attain an end of season average for the UK, but avoided being banned from the UK are being reassessed (Kildemand & Piotr Pawlicki) why should a current GP rider that failed to complete a season in the UK, (Holder) not be reassessed? Are you going to come up with the "Outstanding commitment to British Speedway, over a period" bollocks, because I'm sure Hancock will be reassessed if someone tried to sign him. I would also like to know the theory why riders who decided they couldn't be bothered to ride in the UK last season should not be subject to the same average recalculation as those that decided they did wish to ride the UK in 2017. Woryna's 2017 team building average is 6.51, why should his 2018 team building average be any different? http://www.speedwaygb.co/files/downloads/2017_team_building_alphabetical.pdf I know it is difficult, as it is listed alphabetically But A is after B, B is after C, you'll find Woryna 3 off the bottom. Please see - http://www.speedwaygb.co/files/downloads/p17_issue_final.pdf Kurtz is 8.08, Shanes is 2.95. They're both listed under Poole. Poole alphabetically are between Leicester & Rye House, which is where you will find them. I'm sure if Matt Ford asks nicely, the BSPA will list the Poole averages first just to help you out.

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Woryna should be 6.51, which what his average was when he last competed post conversation.

Oh FFS. That is another nail in the coffin.

Indeed, based on the effort shown he put in he should have been re-assessed on 3.00.

You're in luck, he's never ridden for Poole.

Find a more capable experienced rider on 4.64.

He has been in Denmark's last two SWC teams.

Never ridden in a SGP nor a SWC. Shouldn't be 7:00. Sounds like a good signing, let's hope he turns up every week.

Not a name I am familiar with. Averaged 1.544 (6.176 in our money) from 13 meetings in the Ekstraliga last year. Which is more than Kildemand, Sundstrom & Thorsell. Not totally representative of course as he could well have attained that average from reserve. Swedish stats unsurprisingly not as impressive, but still not bad 1,290 (5.16) from 8 meetings for Lejonen in Elitserien. Assume he starts on 4.00?

There will still be 2 point wobblers as the middle order will be jam packed with 5-7.5ish riders. Swindon, Poole & Wolverhampton have never, ever voted with the interests of their club secondary to the best interests of the league, have they?

Lebedevs & Milik no go? How would Thorsell or Lindgren do as #1 at Kings Lynn?

Rye House Harris 7.67 Sundstrom 7.22 Robson 5.72 Kasprzak 6.95 Nicholls 7.43 Busk-Jacobsen 4.15 Morley 3.29 42.43 0.07

Woffinden only rode in the playoffs in 2016 didn't he, so no adjustment to his average. It's good isn't. Doyle, Lindgren and the other EL standard riders from 2016 had their employment opportunities limited by the change of rules, so now those riders that couldn't be bothered to ride over here in 2016, who were not subjected to the same ruling on their average can be considered bargains. Only in Speedway. Masters 7.92 Wolf X >5.28 Pawlicki 7.32 Schlien 7.72 Woffinden 7.03 Greaves 2.54 M Riss 4.69

It has been announced that Poland are hosting the final event of the SEC calendar. Any rumours for dates of the other 3. Guessing another Polish location, a Swedish & either a German or Latvian?

Never been to Gdansk then. Poland are likely to win wherever the SWC is held until another nation has some new World Class blood. The only riders that may deny Zmarzlik, Dudek, the Pawlicki's & Janowski 10-15 SWC gold medals is other Poles, unfortunately. The SWC remains a great event.

Looking at the GSA's on the BSPA website, if Sundstrom is 7.2ish, Harris or Nicholls around the same plus Kasprzak on 6.9ish wouldn't be a bad start to team building plans. Solid engine room.

We can't leave Robert Lambert alone to develop, because Tatum & Pearson can't stop wittering his name every time I turn on the TV to watch speedway. He is the great British hope. As far as KL go, I would look to loan Robert out next year, he clearly can't learn much more riding Saddlebow Road every week. Additionally can spending more time with the Diamonds in the second tier of British speedway really aid his development? He at least got a few meetings in Poland & Sweden last year, lets hope that continues. As for other riders, I'd put Auty at reserve every year. I am fully aware he isn't going to improve much if at all and sometimes his gating will let you down. But from reserve he will score 3-5 points, he is always entertaining & is occasionally capable of pulling a match winning ride out of the bag. I wouldn't judge all Aussies by Holder & Batchelor standards. But without discrimination the only recently emerged Aussie Speedway rider that I don't find obnoxiously arrogant is Fricke. And he annoys me by not turning up for his UK commitments due to injury yet continues to ride in continental leagues & qualifiers. A greater sin.

When I saw THJ ride for KL last year he looked like a guy who knew how to ride a bike, had speed & tried hard, but didn't know where to put the bike on a track he'd never seen before. He was thrown into a #5 position in a team that was struggling. As a second string or 3rd heat leader he could be a match winner, if fully committed. If you can't get NKI, try for Lebedevs & Milik. You don't want Lambert starting as your #1 as capable as he is. That doesn't mean get Holder or Batchelor back should they deem KL worthy of their efforts.

Assume Lions will lineup with Vaculik & Nilsson as their top two, who else would you want? Przedpełski? Difficult since I hope both Ipswich & Sheffield are top tier next year (ignorant of press releases to the contrary), which would likely rule out King, Bates & L Bjerre.

Yep. But TR scores are not calculated in the Aggregate Point. If Belle Vue draw 45-45 with Somerset at Somerset without using a TR but Somerset win at Belle Vue 46-47 (due to an 6 point TR score) Belle Vue get the aggregate bonus.

Slick on the inside, grippy on the out.